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The Kansas incident became public on the day that a state Senate committee held a hearing on legislation that would repeal a law allowing people to carry concealed weapons into public hospitals and clinics, and into buildings on state university and college campuses. The law is set to take effect in July.

Dove voted for that concealed carry law.

During the hearing, one former lawmaker said he was carrying a concealed weapon, and Democratic Sen. Lynn Rogers, of Wichita, told him, 'I guess I would appreciate you not leaving it here afterwards like it's happened here recently, so thank you.'

Dove, a 71-year-old insurance agency owner was first elected to the House in 2012, and easily won re-election last year in his GOP-leaning northeast Kansas district.

Kansas state Reps. Willie Dove, left, R-Bonner Springs, and John Whitmer, right, R-Wichita, speak at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas in this May 2015 photo